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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by avoid3d » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:15 PM UTC

shazow wrote: post #9

I have a bunch of projects I built up which I consider "done" as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time they're basically free to run (AppEngine in the free tier) so I'm always reluctant to sell... I do wish there were people who wanted to take one of these and build them out to the "next level". - http://www.tweepsect.com/ - Gets 300,000~600,000 pageviews per month (about 1/6 uniques), makes a couple hundred buc…

In the graphic on the home page:

It erks me that different words 'stalkers' and 'stalking' are used to refer to the two parts of the graph, when there is no distinction between them.

Confused me that's all :)

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by habosa » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:18 PM UTC

scottydelta wrote: post #144

habosa wrote: post #121

www.blogmask.com It's a 100% anonymous blogging platform with a clean interface. Just start writing and set a password for your post so you can come back later and edit it. Stores literally zero information about the author. Has a stolen-from-svbtle voting system and a reply mechanism. I believe it has potential because I left it untouched and came back a month later to find dozens of employees of the company OpenEng…

I would love to have it and move forward to see how far I can improve it and monetize it. I also started working on a dynamic blogging platform using python last week( https://github.com/scottydelta/miniblog)and could use ideas from your project to improve it. Let me know what you think about it. Cheers :)

Email me, you can find my email in my profile. A few people have expressed interest so I'd like to find a way to get as many people involved as possible.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by shazow » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:19 PM UTC

basicallydan wrote: post #149

shazow wrote: post #9

I have a bunch of projects I built up which I consider "done" as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time they're basically free to run (AppEngine in the free tier) so I'm always reluctant to sell... I do wish there were people who wanted to take one of these and build them out to the "next level". - http://www.tweepsect.com/ - Gets 300,000~600,000 pageviews per month (about 1/6 uniques), makes a couple hundred buc…

I'm not interested in buying any of them I'm afraid, but I just wanted to say that your website (shazow.net) and your projects are all very impressive. You have a readable style of writing and a good eye for simplicity. Thanks for putting it out there :)

Thank you for the kind words!

I have a few more projects in the pipeline that I've been reluctant to publicize, but now I'm suddenly feeling more motivated, ha. :)

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by Fogest » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:19 PM UTC

waleedka wrote: post #146

Website Screenshots: http://www.bitpixels.com Serves 40 million images a month. It can generate small thumbnails or large screenshots of full-length Web pages. It runs itself and I rarely touch it, but I don't have time to improve and monetize it.

How do you make money from it right now?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by quickpost » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:20 PM UTC

grimtrigger wrote: post #105

quickpost wrote: post #97

http://mmabuzzsaw.com/ MMA News aggregator. 12,000 uniques per month. Aggregator / 30k pageviews. No ads right now, but could easily add them.

Why no ads?

Pure laziness on my part. I built it for myself and using it has been payment enough, but now I'm getting too busy to run it and do any kind of promotion. Feel free to email me (in profile) if you want more info.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by joewee » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:21 PM UTC

I've been sitting on partypal.com for a long time. Any ideas for apps that could use this brand?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by cjstewart88 » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:22 PM UTC

I've always kicked around the idea of selling Tubalr, if anyone's interested shoot me an email(cjstewart88@gmail.com with an offer.

- URL: http://www.tubalr.com

- Age: 3 1/2 years

- Cost to run: $9

- Registered Users: 28,009

- It's been wrote about on sites like mashable, techcrunch, fast company, the next web, etc. .. it's been on the front page of hackernews and reddit. Google for "tubalr" to read around the web.

- Traffic has died down a lot because I haven't spent the time taking it to the next level... it needs to be mobile.

- 37,992 pageviews monthly

- Average time on site: 1 hr 5 minutes

Anyways, like I said, shoot me an email if your seriously interested. I'd love to make my time spent on the project pay off by helping me pay for student loans...

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by frade33 » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:25 PM UTC

http://longr.co (a longer tweet web app) brand new. it supports markdown, the post i wrote couple of days back. http://longr.co/1h34Wk I am primarily using it now as my blog. but sole problem here is i love it so much, that instead of selling it (unless you are gates cough) i am more inclined to use it as my blog :)

btw should i open source it in the event i can not sell it? would it be worth to open source?

But hands down, it's one of the most refined web app of its sort.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by ejb99 » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:25 PM UTC

waleedka wrote: post #146

Website Screenshots: http://www.bitpixels.com Serves 40 million images a month. It can generate small thumbnails or large screenshots of full-length Web pages. It runs itself and I rarely touch it, but I don't have time to improve and monetize it.

Do you make anything form it now? What are you hoping to get for it? - and what stack are you using?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by AlexMuir » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:25 PM UTC

Trufa wrote: post #88

AlexMuir wrote: post #75

The Big Eat http://www.thebigeat.com Menu and takeaway listings (mainly in the UK). Makes around $6,000 per year of Adsense. It's been fairly untouched since I started it in 2006. Has good pagerank for a lot of takeaway names. Costs are a Digital Ocean Droplet @ $5 a month = $60 per year.

Just out curiosity, how much are you expecting to get for a site like that? I really have not clue how to calculate something like this. Hope it's not rude to ask :)

Here is the problem with valuing a business like this... It's my business so I know that revenue has actually risen year-on-year since I set it up (and on just looking is actually $9,000 a year) So for me, I know that I couldn't take less than $40k for it. Since I'd never earn anything like that return on that amount of money elsewhere, even assuming revenue sits static for 5 years.

On the other hand, who in their right mind would pay that with nothing but some Adsense numbers and Google Analytics to go on. So to answer your question "What do I expect to get for it?" Nothing - I don't actually expect anyone to pay what I'd sell it for. And so I'll probably keep it forever.

The only situations that I can see panning out are

a) someone buying it for a brand (unlikely)

b) an established player buying it for the traffic and SEO reasons (a good move IMO)

c) someone with plans to monetize and/or grow it in different ways

or d) a fund is established which buys up all these scrappy little sites, monetizes and maintains them, and earns a steady 20% return for its investors.

I'd actually be very interested in working on d) if anyone wants to get in touch.